From Solving to Staying With: Reflections on the Amazon and the Hetaira Archetypes
My task is not to choose one over the other, but to allow both to inform how I move forward—without collapsing into their shadows. To stand fully in myself, and still remain in contact. This is the work.
Reflection Essay: What Tending to Aliveness Is Asking of Me Now
Reflections on my “experiment” at the end of the first quarter - full of unresolved tensions, new questions, and a fundamental shift in my orientation toward aliveness.
March Nature Report
Insight after this third month of documenting walks to the lake: When you follow the same route every day, it can be a challenge to see things differently. But if you just take a few steps off the well-worn path …
Essay: Living Audre Lorde’s “Erotic as Power”
A personal / political essay on what Audre Lorde’s essay means to me and why it matters so much now.
Path through the Fog
Two nerdy frameworks for studying “aliveness”… and thoughts on how structure can actually get in the way.
February Nature Report
A dozen photos from walks to Lake St. Clair — my small ritual of attention and appreciation.
Edges: An Exploratory Essay
A walk to the lake prompted a reflection on the experience of edges: visual, emotional, & experiential.
New Year’s Day Ritual
New Year’s Day Ritual - sending off 2025 residue into the Detroit River.